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North County attorney Michael T. Pines, who advised clients to break into their foreclosed homes and retake possession, is scheduled to appear at a preliminary court hearing on Friday, according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.

The hearing, at the San Diego Superior Court in Vista, has been moved once before, from May 31 to Oct. 4.

Pines, 59 -- not related or connected to another Michael Pines, a personal injury attorney in La Jolla who is 53 -- was arraigned on several felony and misdemeanor charges related to stalking, filing false crime reports and practicing law with a suspended license. He was released on bail.

Prosecutors charge that Pines had been advising an evicted family to retake possession of their home for roughly two months and, during that process, stalked and harassed the current occupants — Phillip Ladman and his family — as well as Ladman’s business partner, Ronald Bamberger.

After a State Bar Court proceeding in late April, Pines’ license to practice law was made “involuntarily inactive.”

Current records show Pines has been ordered not to practice; he failed to respond to a State Bar Court notice of disciplinary charges.

Pines, whose office is listed as 701 Palomar Airport Road in Carlsbad, could not immediately be reached for comment.